Crocus sativus
as Cyrus Maxwell Boger recorded it in A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica, 1931
Saffron
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Keynotes
Rapidly changing or alternating symptoms; of opposite moods; of sides; of mind and body, etc. Single muscles twitch; upper eyelids, etc. Faint, drowsy and hysterical. Chorea. Jumping about, as of something alive internally. HÆMORRHAGE, dark, stringy, tough. .................... Impressionable, affectionate and moody. Involuntary laughter and weeping; < music. Hysteria. Climacteric hemicrania; instead of menses; > pressure. Dry, burning eyes, as after weeping, or as if in a cool wind. Winks or must close eyes tightly. Lachrymation when reading. Nosebleed, with faintness and cold sweat on forehead; of young girls. Sexual excitement. Dark, foul, stringy menses. Threatened abortion. Narcotic sleep. Singing during sleep.
Worse
Motion. Puberty. Pregnancy. Reading. Heat.
Better
Open air.
Region
MIND. NERVES. Eyes. Circulation. Female organs.
Relationships
Related: Ign. Tarn.
What the other books say about Crocus sativus
The same remedy read by a different author. They disagree, and the disagreements are where the remedy becomes recognisable.
- Crocus sativus in Boericke — The concise clinical Materia Medica that most Indian colleges teach from, in full.
- Crocus sativus in Allen's Keynotes — The few symptoms that, when genuinely present, point at one remedy and not its neighbours.
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Create a free accountCite this page. Cyrus Maxwell Boger. A Synoptic Key of the Materia Medica. 1931. Crocus sativus — Keynotes. HomeopathyWorld, https://homeopathyworld.in/materia-medica/books/boger/crocus-sativus. Author died 1935: public domain in India. The catalogue records 1931; a 1931 edition is public domain in the US from 1 Jan 2027 at the latest — the edition this transcription follows is not stated in the file. Reproduced as the author wrote it; a historical reference for students and practitioners, not medical advice.